Freeport HS Art Students Repurpose Trash to Get the message out!
On Sept. 29th, 25 students spent the day at SPLASH HQ. Amazing to see what they did with the trash that was collected by our dedicated volunteers this summer!
NEWSDAY 8/28/16 GSB Cleanup
Great South Bay cleanup planned to get debris out of waterway August 28, 2016 By Nicholas Spangler [email protected] An Amityville-based group will clean up some Great South Bay salt marsh islands near the Amityville Cut on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. Volunteers in 2012 pulled out tires, wood and trash. (Credit: Fran Berkman) An Amityville-based…
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Non-profit group combats pollution in the Western Bays Posted July 13, 2016 The Wantagh chapter of operation SPLASH cleaned up garbage near Jones Beach State Park. REBECCA ANDERSON/HERALD Volunteers for Operation SPLASH come from all over to help clean up the bays. REBECCA ANDERSON/HERALD By Rebecca Anderson It was a cloudy day on June 27. At Wantagh…
DetailsNassau eyes aqueduct as solution to Bay Park outfall problem
May 20, 2016 By Jennifer Barrios [email protected] Outfall tide pumps at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. Officials may want to send effluent from the facility to the Cedar Creek plant. (Credit: Charles Eckert) Effluent from Nassau’s Sandy-damaged Bay Park sewage-treatment plant could be diverted to an ocean-outfall pipe at the county’s Cedar Creek…
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Operation Splash Awarded Environmental Champion Award
The hard work of all those helping make Operation Splash’s mission a reality was rewarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, when Operation Splash was awarded the Environmental Champion Award on April 24th 2015. Thank you to all of our volunteers and supporters for your dedication and hardwork. This is a great honor…
DetailsJoin Up and Clean Up with Operation SPLASH
November 17, 2015 by Rob Weltner An old sea captain named Al Grover and his daughter Joanne, fresh out of college, wanted to improve the world. That grand vision became one of the largest volunteer organizations in the United States as the Grovers and a few other volunteers in an ole’ leaky Garvey began Operation…
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Wrangling Giant Truck Tires!!!!!
East Rockaway crew, Captain Peter Graffeo, Steve “Captain Video” Bohn and Leigh Block snag a giant truck tire from the marsh. Captain Video suggests we enlist the assistance of the Nassau County Marine Patrol to possibly hoist the tire and bring it in to their port. NCPD and SPLASH crew try to lasso the tire.…
DetailsFreeport marina stops using copper paint on boats, citing environmental harm
8July 8, 2015 By MELANIE DOSTIS. Special to Newsday Dante Grover stands in the boatyard of Al Grovers High and Dry Marina in Freeport on Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Al Grovers High and Dry Marina stopped using copper-laced paint on the bottom of its boats because it is toxic to the marine life. (Credit: Newsday…
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Here’s what a woman SPLASHER can haul!
Herald Article Highlights the Wantagh Chapter
2015.6 Wantagh Article with special thanks to Laura Schofar
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